For four days Kevin Coye fought for his life but this morning, doctors in Guatemala City pronounced the twenty-four year old dead. Coye had sustained severe head and body injuries after colliding with the back of a truck while on his motorcycle on New Year’s Eve. He slipped into a coma shortly after being admitted […]
Tonight police are on the lookout for an alleged murderer. Twenty-nine year old Victor Galvez is wanted for a killing that took place at the Cabbage Ridge area near Bomba in the Belize District. According to police they believe that on December twenty-fifth around four in the evening, Galvez was with one Nehemia Peraza Lopez, […]
Was a thirteen-year-old student abducted and then raped by two men in Orange Walk? That’s what the police are trying to determine as their investigation into the case continues. According to the teenage student she left home shortly after seven on Sunday evening to go buy bread… and took sometime to get back home. It […]
A burglar in Benque Viejo got away with some major loot over the Christmas holidays but today the suspect is in custody. Twenty-eight year old Nelson Hernandez has been charged with burglary and handling stolen goods after police found seventy-eight thousand dollars worth of jewelry buried in the backyard of his home. The jewelry is […]
The Mennonite Community of Spanish Lookout has always been known as easy pickings for criminals due to the Mennonites’ tradition of non-violence. And while in recent years a good number of Spanish Lookout residents have quietly purchased a shotgun or two, a number of high profile violent crimes have continued to plague the prosperous settlement. […]
Belize will be represented at next week’s presidential inauguration in Guatemala City by none other than Prime Minister Said Musa. It is Musa’s second official trip to Guatemala since becoming Prime Minister and he will no doubt take the opportunity to strengthen ties with a new president who is reputed to be a hardliner on […]
The diplomatic mission to Guatemala comes at a time when border tensions between the two countries are running a bit higher than normal. Recently a Guatemalan army patrol was met by a Belize Defense Force patrol in the area of San Vicente, a tiny settlement in Toledo just south of the Columbia River Forest Reserve. […]
Despite the fact that there has been an ongoing campaign by the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute, dead manatees are still washing up on our shores: seventeen in 1999 alone. Of that number it is believed three may have died after the manatees were hit by a boat propeller or crushed by the hull […]
Everyone likes a raffle, especially one where you’re holding a pile of tickets. I must confess that more than a few of the stubs in today’s big draw carried my name… but alas, this isn’t a story about me. You had a one in three hundred thousand chance to hit the jackpot. That’s the number […]
On January tenth, when the students of Excelsior High School go back to classes, there’ll be one less staff member on campus. Math and Science teacher Brian Plummer has been told that effective immediately, his services will no longer be required at the school. Last year Plummer was a vocal supporter of the controversial government […]
